Rejected petition To have fair political broadcasting on the BBC and Sky news channels.

The news channels BBC and Sky news are clearly bias towards the Labour Party and don't not broadcast fair political news. This gives huge advantage to the conservatives.

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To have fair political broadcasting on the the BBC and Sky news channels and for them to stop having bias behaviour and downgrading the Labour Party. This clearly gives the conservatives a huge advantage and this needs to be stopped.

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This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

Sky News is already required to be impartial by the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. You can read more about the Code here:

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/impartiality/

Ofcom, which is an independent regulator, is responsible for enforcing the Code.

The BBC Trust is responsible for investigating breaches of the BBC Charter, which includes complaints about the impartiality of the BBC.

You can get in touch with the BBC Trust using the following website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/contact_us

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 30 July 2016
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